Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-08-19


lleved that the gentleman made such
mental diagram of the patch as would
enable him to find it again. even in the
dark.
Little four-yearoold Lloyd Worst and
his dog went out in the field the other
day and killed gopher. Lloyd picked it
up and carried it on the run to the house.
He was In great glee. On being asked if
he was glad that he had killed it he said !:
Yes; AM glad. I didn't know l could
be so glad"
1t is no longer doubtful, but assured,
says an exchange, that Dakota will have
larger crops this year than any north
western state. This fact ought to cause
immigration to sweep this way next year,
and we believe it will. Never was there
a time when people could get good homes
cheaper than now.
A man came over from the railroad
yesterday afternoon bringing Mr.. Snyder's
team with him, to be left at s. E. Kurtz's.
Mr.. Snyder was taken to Bismarck yes
terday morning suffering with the same
complaint that has afflicted Tom Kelly
and Mr.. Chesley. The sickness in the
railroad camp is said to be due to drink.
ing impure water.
The diamond-wlllow fence. posts put in
around Williamsport are as sound and
substantial as ever. They have neither
split nor decayed. They are undoubtedly
the thing for wire fences. They cost
nothing but the labor of getting them,
and that isn't much, us a man can cut
and haul from the river to Williamsport
in week or ten days enough to fence
section.
l. The four little settlers who located IN
Buchanan Valley this summer have been
| named IS follows. There may be one or
more middle names but, If so, we did
not learn them: William Buchanan, 81.
mon Goughnour, James Wilson, Frank
Goodwin. Young Mr.. Hcrrick has been
named Carl Houghton. He gets the first
name at the instance of his papa, who
was born IN Germany.
If you have to purchase groceries,
of course you want them to be of good
quality and sold at reasonable prices.
And in this connection we will say that
George Jennings, the Bismarck grocer, is
establishing an enviable reputation as
merchant whose groceries are fresh and
pure, and one who sells them at low
margin of profit. He also makes spe-
cialty of fruits and vegetables.
An eastern journal says Some idea of
the vast wheat crop of the west may be
gained when information is given of what
is required to harvest the crop. One Da-
kota farm-the rympls--shipped by
the American express company from
Boston last week 100 tons Tor niue car
loads) of binding twine for the coming
harvest. 1t was shipped by express in
order to get 1t to Dakota in time.
Mclean County Mail: A teachers in
stitute, to comprise the counties of Bur-
leigh. Emmons, Morton, Oliver, Mercer
and Mclean, with Burleigh as the senior
county, is talked of, to be held in Bis.
marck in the near future. Superintendent
Wallin, of this county, from whom we
get this information. is much pleased
with the idea, and will do all in his power
to secure success of the movement.
Uncle Dan Long went out dozen
miles or more from home, recently, hunt
ing sand~che erries. and while picking 'em
lost the jackknife with which he used to
play mumbletypeg when boy. Next
day he went back and succeeded IN find
ing the treasure. Cherry -pickers mile
away say they mistook Uncle Dams war;
whoop when he found the knife for the
toot of the "bulginc" at Menoken.
MI. W. H. Bringhurst, Of Logansport,
Ind. and an owner of land IN the Will
transport country, was in town during the
week. Mr.. B. says that, among other
things, potatoes are failure in Indiana
and neighboring states, ewing to the great
drought. When he left Legansport the
tubers were selling at 81 per bushel. Po-
tatoes are drug IN Dakota; but Mr..
Bringhurst says every surplus bushel in the
territory can undoubtedly be shipped to
the drought-stricken regions at a fair
margin of profit. The gentleman left for
Sterling Tuesday.
One of the finest wild fruits found in
Dakota is the sand d-cherry. In size, ap-
pearance and taste it is aim est identical
with the common black tame cherry of
"ths states" The Dakota cherry, how
ever, does not grow on trees. 1t is to be
found in sandy places. and grows On a
bush hardly ever more than a foet high.
When the fruit has reached full growth
the little bush bends over and lies prone
upon the grass. 1t has no branches.
On good soil, and cultivated, the cherries
are said to do as well as in their wild
state. Pretty nearly everybody in this
neighbOrhood has gathered big supply
of the fruit during the week.
Landlord Bottemley doesn't sit on the
fence and make music for his broncho
any more; and this is because the said
broncho skipped out unceremoniously
the ether night, and is now wanderer
upon the face Of the earth. Frank Harris
wild.eyed charger for moment forgot
his cunning last Friday, stepped one of
his feet inside sllp-noose, and was cap
tured. Then, with two men holding each